Sensory Impairment Care

After working through this material the learner can: - Screen a client's functional vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste, and document what the client can and cannot do with and without aids. - Describe how presbyopia, cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy each change what a client sees, and what that means for reading labels, mobility and falls. - Recognize the vision and hearing emergencies (sudden vision loss, curtain or shadow, painful red eye with nausea, sudden hearing loss) and state the first RN action, who is notified and how fast. - Examine the feet of a client with reduced sensation using a 10 g monofilament and plan burn and pressure injury prevention. - Separate a sensory barrier from delirium, dementia, aphasia or refusal, and apply measures that reduce sensory-related delirium risk. - Communicate with clients who are hard of hearing, Deaf, blind or partially sighted, and deafblind, including working with qualified interpreters and intervenors. - Name the ototoxic and vision-affecting drugs that matter in everyday practice (gentamicin, furosemide, hydroxychloroquine, ethambutol, amiodarone, anticholinergics such as tolterodine, timolol eye...